SONG
TITLE:
BOB
GEORGE
PERFORMER:
PRINCE
SONGWRITER:
PRINCE
YEAR
OF
RELEASE:
1994
COMMENTS:
At
just
about
the
last
possible
minute,
Prince
cancelled
the
original
release
of
the
Black
album
from
whence
this
track
came.
It
had
been
mastered,
and
test
pressings
were
already
circulating
when
the
decision
was
announced,
supposedly
causing
the
destruction
of
tens
or
even
hundreds
of
thousands
of
already
printed
copies.
As
to
why
he
had
done
this,
Prince
offered
numerous
oblique
reasonings,
but
they
added
up
to
one
basic
explanation:
This
album
is
evil,
motivated
by
the
dark
side
of
his
nature
-
whatever
exactly
he
thought
that
was.
Mostly
it
sounded
like
typical
high
quality
Prince
experimental
dance
music,
laced
with
sexual
themes
but
nowhere
near
his
raunchiest.
Besides,
he
never
went
much
for
equating
sex
with
sin.
In
"Bob
George,"
however,
you
can
see
his
point.
It
is
a
morbid
comedy
about
a
violently
jealous
husband
who
eventually
kills
his
woman
after
figuring
out
she
was
screwing
some
"slick
black
daddy"
who
manages
rock
stars.
"Manage
rock
stars!
Who?
Prince?
Ain't
that
a
bitch.
That
skinny
motherfucker
with
the
high
voice?
Please!...Don't
you
know
I'm
gonna
kill
you
now?"
The
song
is
a
merciless
mocking
of
wounded
stupid
stone
age
male
ego,
African-American
style.
He
kills
the
woman
just
to
prove
a
stupid
point.
"You
think
I
won't?"
Even
knowing
he'll
be
caught
or
even
killed
himself,
with
police
and
hostage
squads
surrounding
the
house.
He
works
in
the
obvious
stuff
about
assholes
swinging
guns
to
make
up
for
inadequacies
in
the
bedroom.
"Little?
Yeah,
right,
it
might
be
little,
but
it's
loud."
Most
particularly
important
for
Prince,
this
is
a
brilliant
satire
of
gangster
rap.
Too
brilliant,
arguably,
for
if
NWA
were
this
witty
or
downright
musical
they
would
have
made
a
much
more
lasting
impression.
The
flat,
monotone
sound
of
the
basic
hip
hop
beats
drives
home
the
aggravated
depression
and
echoes
his
lyrical
critiques
of
tone
deaf
rappers
from
"Dead
On
It."
Only
he
squeezes
such
tunefulnes
out
of
dancer
and
in
this
case
lead
vocalist
Albert
Brooks,
and
such
a
uniquely
exciting
musical
palette
that
he
manages
to
make
it
sound
damned
appealing.
"Bob?
Ain't
that
a
bitch!"
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